Lillian Aujo | |
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Born | Lilian Akampurira Aujo Uganda |
Occupation | writer |
Nationality | Ugandan |
Genre | Fiction, poetry |
Website | |
lillianakampuriraaujo |
Lillian Aujo is a Ugandan author. [1] In 2009, she was the winner of the Babishai Niwe (BN) Poetry Foundation's inaugural BN poetry prize. [2] [3] [4] In 2015, she was longlisted for, [5] and won the Inaugural Jalada Prize for Literature for her story "Where pumpkin leaves dwell". [6]
Aujo is a member of Femrite. Her works "The Eye of Poetry" and "Getting Nowhere" were published in Suubi, a publication of the African Writers Trust. [7] She attended the Caine Prize workshop 2013, [8] [9] and her story "Red" was published in the anthology A Memory This Size and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2013. [10] Her work has appeared in anthologies by Femrite, "Talking tales" and "Summoning the rains". [11]